Song Name:  Friendship Always Wins
Subtitle: Piano Demo 1
Original Name: MLP802 The New School of Friendship_piano demo
Episode: S08E02 "School Daze - Part 2"
Key: D major, E major
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A song that (perhaps surprisingly) was changed a lot before ending up in its final form.

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Differences with the final song:
- Different chorus melody, with slight lyrical modification.
- Ah-ah-ah-ah choir after the chorus rather than just instrumental.
- A few melodic changes in the following lines:
 - some things you only know
 - so trust your heart and let us lead
 - and once we master kindness
- A few lyrical changes, but the funniest is probably "Make others understand" rather than the final "So others understand".
- The song ends differently.

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Lyrics:
This brand new school of friendship
Is home to everyone
We're learning how to trust
We're here to all have fun

With friendship ties that bind us
Tighter than the strongest bonds
We're hoof-in-hoof
In hand in hoof in wing or even claw

There's a griffon in the garden
Hippogriffs hang in the hall
And the door will be open
To all creatures great and small

And a yak or two or three
Sing in perfect harmony
That might have been a changeling
But it kind of looks like me

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[The] school of friendship # for all of us
[Our differences we know and trust]
The only rule # is # find your way
['Cause] friendship always wins at the end of the day
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[Ah ah ah ah-ah
Ah ah ah ah-ah
Ah ah ah ah-ah
Ah ah ah ah-ah]

Some things you just can't teach with books
Some things you only know
So trust your heart and let us lead
And your friendship's sure to grow

And once we master kindness
[We'll] spread it 'cross this land
And give the gift that's ours to share
[Make] others understand

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[The] school of friendship # for all of us
[Our differences we know and trust]
The only rule # is # find your way
['Cause] friendship always wins at the end of the day
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[Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Friendship always wins at the end
Of the day]